5 best-selling essays books like The Tears of Eros by Georges Bataille, Peter Connor

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The Tears of Eros

By: Georges Bataille , Peter Connor

3.37

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Tears of Erosis the culmination of Georges Bataille's inquiries into the relationship between viole…

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1. Sphinx

By: Anne Garréta , Emma Ramadan

3.74

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Sphinx is the remarkable debut novel, originally published in 1986, by the incredibly talented and … read more

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  • france
"I concluded that making love without laughing was as bad as gifting a book written in a language the recipient does not know."

-Anne Garréta, Sphinx

"To clutch someone in my arms took on, without fail, a singular sense of indignity, the taste of putrefaction. When I embrace someone I am submerged in a feeling of infamy, in the nauseating sensation…"

-Anne Garréta, Sphinx

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2. Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation

By: Gilles Deleuze , Daniel W. Smith , Tom Conley

4.20

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Gilles Deleuze had several paintings by Francis Bacon hanging in his Paris apartment, and the paint… read more

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  • art
  • theory
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • france
"The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering."

-Gilles Deleuze, Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation

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3. The 120 Days of Sodom

By: Marquis de Sade

3.08

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade relates the story of four wealthy men who enslave 24 mostl… read more

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"The lecher swears, the come flows and supper sounds."

-Marquis de Sade, The 120 Days of Sodom

"Adélaïde was the sketch rather than the model of beauty..."

-Marquis de Sade, The 120 Days of Sodom

"Nothing is as encouraging as a first crime that goes unpunished."

-Marquis de Sade, The 120 Days of Sodom

"I would, thank God, watch the universe perish without shedding a tear."

-Marquis de Sade, The 120 Days of Sodom

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4. The Tears of Eros

By: Georges Bataille , Peter Connor

3.37

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Tears of Erosis the culmination of Georges Bataille's inquiries into the relationship between viole… read more

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  • art
  • history
  • theory
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • essays
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5. La familia de Pascual Duarte

By: Camilo José Cela , Alan Hoyle

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Family of Pascual Duarte is the story of Pascual Duarte--a Spanish peasant born into a brutal w… read more

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6. A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

By: Roland Barthes , Richard Howard , Wayne Koestenbaum

4.33

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A Lover's Discourse, at its 1978 publication, was revolutionary: Roland Barthes made unprecedented … read more

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  • philosophy
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7. On the Heights of Despair

By: Emil M. Cioran , Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston

4.53

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

Born of a terrible insomnia--"a dizzying lucidity which would turn even paradise into hell"--this b… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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8. Eros the Bittersweet

By: Anne Carson

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

A book about love as seen by the ancients, Erosis Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros… read more

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  • philosophy
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  • essays
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9. Poesía completa

By: Alejandra Pizarnik , Ana María Becciu

2.74

Format: None pages,

Publicamos la obra poetica completa de una de las escritoras argentinas mas emblematicas de la segu… read more

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10. A Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat

By: Arthur Rimbaud , Louise Varèse

3.95

Format: 161 pages, Paperback

Although he stopped writing at the age of 19, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-91) possessed the most revolutio… read more

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  • france
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11. Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature

By: Franz Kafka , Gilles Deleuze , Félix Guattari

3.67

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

In KafkaDeleuze and Guattari free their subject from his (mis)interpreters. In contrast to traditio… read more

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  • philosophy
  • france
  • nonfiction

12. 4.48 Psychosis

By: Sarah Kane

3.89

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

4.48 Psychosissees the ultimate narrowing of Sarah Kane's focus in her work. The struggle of the se… read more

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13. What Is Philosophy?

By: Gilles Deleuze , Félix Guattari

3.51

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Called by many France's leading intellectual, Gilles Deleuze is one of the most important philosoph… read more

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14. The Golem

By: Gustav Meyrink , Mike Mitchell

4.04

Format: 431 pages, Paperback

First published in serial form as Der Golemin the periodical Die weissen Blatterin 1913-14, The Gol… read more

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15. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction

By: Michel Foucault , Robert Hurley

4.00

Format: 201 pages,

Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze … read more

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16. Envelope Poems

By: Emily Dickinson , Jen Bervin , None

4.07

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Although a very prolific poet--and arguably America's greatest--Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) publish… read more

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17. El camino

By: Miguel Delibes

4.33

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

Daniel el Mochuelo intuye a sus once anos que su camino esta en la aldea, junto a sus amigos, sus g… read more

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18. The Conspiracy Against the Human Race

By: Thomas Ligotti , Ray Brassier

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

"The Conspiracy against the Human Race sets out what is perhaps the most sustained challenge yet to… read more

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19. The Art of Love

By: David Malouf , Ovid , James Michie

4.33

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

De los clasicos de la literatura, Ovidio nos deleita con una lirica que habla del mas puro de los s… read more

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20. The Birth of Tragedy

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , Shaun Whiteside

3.99

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

A compelling argument for the necessity for art in life, Nietzsche's first book is fuelled by his e… read more

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  • art
  • history
  • theory
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

"Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

"Look at this! Look carefully! It is your life! It is the hour-hand of your clock of existence!"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

"Večita je to pojava: požudna volja uvek nalazi sredstva da iluzijom prostrtom preko stvari zadrži svoje stvorove u životu i da ih prisili da i dalje žive."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

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21. The Agony of Eros

By: Byung-Chul Han

3.93

Format: 76 pages, Kindle Edition

An argument that love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of discovering the … read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"Philosophy is the translation of the Eros into Logos"

-Byung-Chul Han, The Agony of Eros

"Such crises make it plain that capitalism - counter to widespread belief - is not a religion. Every religion operates with both debt (guilt) and relief (pardon). But capitalism only works with debt a…"

-Byung-Chul Han, The Agony of Eros

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4.13

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